Dead Pool 192: new for 2026!
Barney Fife takes it with Brigitte Bardot. All post mortem attempts to defame her have made me like her more.
My mother loved Barney Fife. Brigitte Bardot, I’m not so sure.
0. Rule Zero (AKA Steve’s Rule): your pick has to be living when picked. Also, nobody whose execution date is circled on the calendar. Also, please don’t kill anybody. Plus (Pupster’s Rule) no picking someone who’s only famous for being the oldest person alive.
1. Pick a celebrity. Any celebrity — though I reserve the right to nix picks I never heard of (I don’t generally follow the Dead Pool threads carefully, so if you’re unsure of your pick, call it to my attention).
2. We start from scratch every time. No matter who you had last time, or who you may have called between rounds, you have to turn up on this very thread and stake your claim.
3. Poaching and other dirty tricks positively encouraged.
4. Your first choice sticks. Don’t just blurt something out, m’kay? Also, make sure you have a correct spelling of your choice somewhere in your comment. These threads get longish and I use search to figure out if we have a winner.
5. It’s up to you to search the thread and make sure your choice is unique. I’m waayyyy too lazy to catch the dupes. Popular picks go fast.
6. The pool stays open until somebody on the list dies. Feel free to jump in any time. Noobs, strangers, drive-bys and one-comment-wonders — all are welcome.
7. If you want your fabulous prize, you have to entrust me with a mailing address. If you’ve won before, send me your address again. I don’t keep good records.
8. The new DeadPool will begin 6pm WBT (Weasel’s Blog Time) the Friday after the last round is concluded.
The winner, if the winner chooses to entrust me with a mailing address, will receive an Official Certificate of Dick Winning and a small original drawing on paper suffused with elephant shit particles. Because I’m fresh out of fairy shit particles.
Note: I am woefully behind on dick deliveries. If I owe you one, you’ll know how long. I ain’t gived up, but I haven’t drawn much since lockdown. Some day, your heirs might hear from my heirs.
Posted: January 2nd, 2026 under deadpool.
Comments: 50
Comments
Comment from BullDawgGirl
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:00 pm
King Charles
Comment from RushBabe
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:00 pm
Back to Eva Marie Saint
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:00 pm
I will miss Scott Adams very much. His entertaining strip and then his perceptive and accurately targeted observations and criticisms enriched my life.
Comment from LavenderGirl
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:01 pm
My pick got taken so going to wait until something pops up
Comment from BullDawgGuy
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:02 pm
George Soros
Time to go George.
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:05 pm
Nick Shirley. His revelations of the massive [GNP-level] fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere has earned him the emnity of hordes of enemies; both foreign and domestic.
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from p2
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:08 pm
Got poached….back to the standby. Clint Eastwood
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:10 pm
Alan Greenspan
Old Alan is Angria Mitchell’s husband. I am entirely surprised that he wants to hang around given his “relationship” BUT I am also afraid to NOT nominate the Old Fart because then he will surely kick the bucket.
DAMMIT! I’m keeping Alan Greenspan alive!
Comment from Ben
Time: January 2, 2026, 6:42 pm
William Shatner
Comment from Carl
Time: January 2, 2026, 7:10 pm
Duke of Kent
Comment from Mrs Carl
Time: January 2, 2026, 7:14 pm
David Attenborough. He’s now aged 99. His latest programme “Wild London” was on BBC TV last night.
Comment from RimrockR
Time: January 2, 2026, 7:30 pm
Jessie Jackson
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: January 2, 2026, 8:40 pm
I could grab Dick Van Dyke, but that would break my rule of new targets only.
So… Royce Williams – Navy air ace who shot down four Soviet MiG-15s off Korea in a single action in 1952. His feat was classified at the time lest it provoke open hostilities with the USSR. There is a push on to get him the Medal of Honor while he’s still alive. He’d be the oldest living recipient (age 100). (He got the Silver Star at the time and the Navy Cross in 2022.)
Comment from Armybrat
Time: January 2, 2026, 8:57 pm
Gene Shalit.
And with this deed done, I shall slink off to my heated pool for an adult beverage before hubby and I head off to the Keys tomorrow am for a week of debauchery with old friends. Actually, at our ages, it’s likely to be a week of a few drinks while engaging in some epic people watching and smack talk.
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: January 2, 2026, 9:41 pm
RimrockR
Time: January 2, 2026, 7:30 pm
Jessie Jackson
Senior or Junior?
Obsessive/compulsive minds want to know…
Comment from Ea
Time: January 2, 2026, 10:10 pm
Bill Clinton
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: January 2, 2026, 10:24 pm
Well, if you’re not taking him, Rich, I will.
The old song and dance man, Dick Van Dyke is my pick.
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: January 2, 2026, 10:24 pm
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Because it’s been a long time coming and he deserves his place on, sorry, I mean AT of course, the bon fires of paradise.
Comment from G_d’s Middle Finger
Time: January 2, 2026, 11:05 pm
Imelda Marcos
Comment from Gromulin
Time: January 2, 2026, 11:53 pm
Buzz Aldrin
Comment from RimrockR
Time: January 3, 2026, 12:10 am
Ooh, thanks Rich for the reminder. I hereby pick Jessie Jackson Senior! If junior takes the dive won’t I be vexed (ha ha)
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: January 3, 2026, 12:11 am
@durnedyankee — in
Comment from PatAZ
Time: January 3, 2026, 2:02 am
Joseph B. Biden. The do nothing president. 81 million votes. What a joke.
Comment from Jeff Weimer
Time: January 3, 2026, 2:24 am
Bruce Willis
Comment from tinman
Time: January 3, 2026, 5:12 am
Dan Rather (and not a moment too soon)
Comment from nbc
Time: January 3, 2026, 10:57 am
Klaus Schwab
Comment from technochitlin
Time: January 3, 2026, 12:08 pm
Mick Jagger, again…
Comment from platypuss
Time: January 3, 2026, 1:24 pm
I’ll stick with Lee Grant.
Comment from Wise(?) old owl
Time: January 3, 2026, 1:28 pm
Warren Buffett
Comment from steve
Time: January 3, 2026, 1:37 pm
Violet Hensley
Comment from Nana1
Time: January 3, 2026, 2:58 pm
The Montecito ingrates father Thomas Markle Sr
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: January 3, 2026, 6:10 pm
This time around I’m going with Claudia Sheinbaum, the current president of Mexico. Being a cartel puppet is dangerous work, Claudia.
Comment from AltBBrown
Time: January 3, 2026, 6:25 pm
Harvey Weinstein.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: January 3, 2026, 8:42 pm
How come nobody ever picks Keith Richards?
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: January 3, 2026, 8:56 pm
Okay, since Gromulin has pointed out that Keith is immortal I will take
Willie Nelson…
Comment from dissent555
Time: January 3, 2026, 11:14 pm
Dang. And I was gonna take Nicholas Maduro too.
oh well. Once more into the breech with Connie Stevens.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 3, 2026, 11:54 pm
Raul Castro.
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: January 4, 2026, 1:59 am
I was curious, so I took a look at Dead Pool picks back to July 2025. In that interval, both Some Veg and Neon Madman picked Keith Richards.
Comment from thefritz
Time: January 4, 2026, 1:24 pm
Guillermo Rodríguez Lara – former Ecuadorian President.
Oldest living former state leader.
I have nothing against this man and know not of his politics. At 102, I’m playing the odds.
(I was going to poach Farrakhan but LesterIII would un-invite me to the soirees at the ‘Estate’ and that would suck…) BTW…where are you Lester?
Comment from MrsMGunz
Time: January 5, 2026, 12:13 am
Former Senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: January 5, 2026, 3:49 pm
His Unholiness Ayatollah Kahmeni.
He was invited to Moscow but couldn’t bring his smooth young boys.
He’ll go out swinging.
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: January 5, 2026, 9:05 pm
Gromulin @ January 3, 2026, 8:42 pm:
How come nobody ever picks Keith Richards?
Uncle Al @ January 4, 2026, 1:59 am
I was curious, so I took a look at Dead Pool picks back to July 2025. In that interval, both Some Veg and Neon Madman picked Keith Richards.
And 64 times before that, starting in DP #1. Other DP #1 picks currently in play:
Dick Van Dyke
Jessie Jackson Senior
19 other survivors from DP #1 are still available:
Stephen King
Tom Cruise
Nancy Pelosi
Arlo Guthrie
Art Garfunkel
Britney Spears
Al Gore
Ralph Nader
Michael Moore
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Garrison Keillor
John Kerry
Jennifer Lopez
Barney Frank
Bono
Frank Lautenberg
Suze Orman
Jane Fonda
Paul McCartney
Comment from ama
Time: January 6, 2026, 5:37 am
Cali ex gov Jerry Brown
Comment from blake
Time: January 6, 2026, 11:19 pm
Sidney Kibrick (of “Our Gang”) comedies just died.
Oh, I don’t know. Robert Duvall? He just had his 95th birthday! A spring chicken!
Comment from thefritz
Time: January 7, 2026, 1:34 am
Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames, who spied for Russia, died in prison at 84. RIH (rot in hell)
Comment from Tonyc
Time: January 7, 2026, 4:48 pm
Yoko Ono and her absent musical talent.
Comment from thefritz
Time: January 11, 2026, 2:12 am
Oh my, Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Guitarist has passed at 78. RIP
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106/
Comment from thefritz
Time: January 12, 2026, 4:57 pm
Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author who ignited global debate over ancient astronauts and extraterrestrial influence on human history, has died at age 90. RIP
His 1968 bestseller ‘Chariots of the Gods?’ challenged conventional archaeology, reframing myths, pyramids, and biblical visions as possible encounters with advanced non human intelligence. I hope to one day find out if he was on to something.
Comment from Uncle AL
Time: January 13, 2026, 3:51 pm
It is with great sadness that I find I have “won” this DP round. Scott Adams died today.
RIP
Comment from steve
Time: January 13, 2026, 5:33 pm
It’s OK, Uncle Al.
I think he was at death’s door, anyway. I believe that, in no way, was your pick any kind of push.
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